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How to send a welcome message to new users?
What are the possible options for sending a welcome message when a new hire receives an Office365 account?
Can this be done in Sharepoint? MS Flow?
If not possible in O365, what are the options to send a welcome message when a new hire receives an Outlook mail box?
Any idea is welcome ;-). Tx.
Apart from automating a "welcome" script, you might also consider informing your users when new functionality is rolled out, or simply remind them about some features exist. There's a built-in "wizard" as part of the O365 Admin portal that lets you do that: https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/iwwizard
Wow, I was not aware of that wizar...thanks VasilMichev
Yes I like wizard, but it could be automated maybe in future will be possible to do that.
- Eric,
Are you creating the user account in on-premises Active Directory and then adding a license to the user in the cloud, or is this a 100% pure cloud only identity?
If it is an on-premises AD user that is synced to the cloud, there is a community script that was written that can send the email as part of the new account creation process, reference is here: https://community.spiceworks.com/scripts/show/3188-office-365-user-creation- Hi Joe , thanks for your fast reply. It's indeed an on-premise AD user that we sync to the cloud. The script you reference creates an account and at the end sends an email to the new user.
For different reasons we're using the admin interface to create our AD users.
Would it be possible to trigger/fire the script after the users are created ?
In the script we would then only the mail send code.
For different reasons we've a delay between the creation of the user, availability of the mail box and O365 license activation/assignment.
Would it be possible to trigger the script after assigning the O365 license?
We also would like the option to email new users, automatically, with a welcome message regarding our IT policies and procedures.
Karissa Larson that's an example of "underexposed" feature, as we discussed at Ignite :)
- With this feature depreciated, is there a replacement way to complete this function, without saving an .oft template and sending manually?
This is still a needed want for many i am sure.- Is there any news about it ?
